Apr 25
Bitcoin 'Epic Sat' From the Halving Sells for $2.1 Million
The first satoshi mined on the Bitcoin blockchain after last week’s halving event, mined by Bitcoin mining pool ViaBTC, went up for auction—and fetched a sizable seven-figure sum. The auction of “epic sat” 1,968,750,000,000,000, hosted on the cryptocurrency exchange CoinEX, ended Thursday with a final bid of 33.3 Bitcoin ($2.13 million worth) winning the piece of Bitcoin history. It's not yet clear who won the auction. The auction of the Epic Sat began on April 20, the day after the halving, wit...
Apr 24
Bitcoin’s Inflation Rate Is Now Lower Than Gold: Report
It's been roughly four days since Bitcoin (BTC)’s fourth halving event occurred, and market watchers have amassed enough data to give an early verdict on its effects. For one, Bitcoin’s supply inflation rate has collapsed, as expected. Each Bitcoin block—mined roughly once every ten minutes—now produces just 3.125 new BTC, half of its former 6.25 BTC block subsidy. Before the halving, 900 BTC was generated daily, fueling a 1.7% inflation rate. The new figures are roughly equivalent to 450 BTC pe...
Apr 22
What Is the Bitcoin Halving? How Bitcoin's Supply Is Limited
Earn a free on-chain NFT by taking our course, "Bitcoin Halving 101: What it Means for Miners and Investors." Every four years, the amount of Bitcoin doled out to cryptocurrency miners halves in a process imaginatively known as the Bitcoin halving (or halvening, though the term has fallen out of favor in recent years). Here’s why—and how—it works. Bitcoin’s supply limit To understand the Bitcoin halving, we must first understand the theory behind its supply. The inventor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Naka...
Apr 20
Bitcoin Halving Is Here: Crypto Twitter Reacts
The highly anticipated Bitcoin halving has arrived, and the Bitcoin faithful cheered the event, with many declaring a new era in Bitcoin—particularly as the new Runes protocol came online as well. Anticipation around the halving has steadily grown since the start of the new year. In January, after the SEC approved the first set of Bitcoin ETFs, fuel was added to the fire, and investors began speculating what the fourth halving would mean for the price of the number one cryptocurrency. Heading in...
Apr 19
The Race Is On to Mint One of the First Bitcoin Runes
With the Bitcoin halving only hours away, the race is on to mint the first tokens on the new Bitcoin Runes protocol set to launch alongside the quadrennial event. Runes is a new fungible token protocol on Bitcoin that will let users “etch” and mint tokens on top of the chain. It’s akin to the experimental BRC-20 standard launched last year, but is said to be more efficient—and comes from the inventor of the Ordinals protocol. In any case, as with the NFT-like Ordinals before it, project creators...
Apr 18
How Will Traders Handle Volatility Ahead of Bitcoin Halving? Analysts Are Split
The notorious volatility of Bitcoin’s price is ramping up approaching the eve of the next Bitcoin halving, making it increasingly difficult to predict where things will land after the event. That doesn’t stop anyone from trying. Expert predictions of post-halving BTC price movements differ depending on the lens used to examine the market. On-chain analysts, for example, are directionally bullish, while technical analysts are much more cautious. “It’s hard to tell, but certainly the sell pressure...
Liquidations Top $255 Million as Bitcoin Recovers to $63K Ahead of Halving
Bitcoin has left a trail of $255 million worth of liquidations in its wake after it suddenly plummeted to $61,000 yesterday and took the rest of the market with it. The Bitcoin price has shown some signs of recovery since yesterday, hitting a peak of just under $63,000 early Thursday. BTC is currently changing hands for around $62,750, down only 0.1% in the past 24 hours and 11.1% lower than it was this time last week, per data from CoinGecko. The broader crypto market has moved on a similar tra...
Apr 17
Bitcoin Ordinals Explorer Ord.io Raises $2 Million, Embraces Runes Tokens
With the Runes protocol launch set for this weekend alongside the Bitcoin halving, Ordinals explorer Ord.io is beefing up its treasury, announcing on Wednesday the raise of $2 million that the company says will be used to hire more developers. Bitcoin Frontier Fund and Sora Ventures led the pre-seed funding round. Other investors include Eden Block, Arca, Longhash Ventures, Daxos Capital, Portal Ventures, UTXO Management, Rubik Ventures, VitalTao Capital, Antalpha Ventures, Kommune Fund, Edessa...
Apr 16
Bitcoin Traders Brace for Runes Launch by Setting Up Their Own Nodes—Why?
Exchanging Bitcoin for Runes via a command-line interface? For some, setting up a Bitcoin node—which validates transactions and keeps a record of network activity—that is capable of doing just that evokes a sense of confusion or dread. For others, it’s a technical endeavor that could come in handy soon when Runes, a protocol for Bitcoin-based fungible tokens (such as meme coins), unleashes a sluice of new assets on the network. “A lot of people are super intimidated to run a Bitcoin node,” Trevo...
Bitcoin Runes Arrive at the Halving—And Internet Computer Will Support Them
With the Bitcoin halving and Runes protocol launch taking place this weekend, Dfinity is continuing Internet Computer's embrace of the Bitcoin ecosystem by adding support for etching Runes tokens and other BTC-centric functionality, the company said on Tuesday. Wading into an increasingly crowded pool of developers preparing for the launch of Runes, Dfinity said its “Bitcoin layer zero” upgrade makes it possible to etch Runes, send and receive BRC-20 tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain, and create...
Runes Will Help Bitcoin DeFi ‘Close the Gap’ on Ethereum, Solana: Franklin Templeton
The launch of Runes will help Bitcoin “close the gap” with Ethereum and Solana in the fungible digital asset space, investment firm Franklin Templeton Digital Assets said in a new report released Monday. “Currently the fungible token market for Bitcoin is quite small in comparison to ETH and SOL,” the investment firm said. “However, with the launch of a more efficient token standard (Runes), Bitcoin is positioned well to close the gap between its fungible market cap versus that of other blockcha...
Apr 15
What Is the Bitcoin Halving and Why Should You Care?
It’s not long before Bitcoin’s next halving takes place—five days, according to our Bitcoin halving countdown tool. Unless you’ve been following Bitcoin closely since its early days, however, you might be confused as to what exactly is happening. This year’s halving is different in at least one way—more people are talking about the quadrennial event than previous ones. Without getting too technical, here’s what you need to know. What is the halving? Every four years, Bitcoin—the biggest cryptoc...
Apr 12
Ethereum ETF Approval Could Come Monday—In Hong Kong: Report
Spot Ethereum and Bitcoin ETFs could get the green light in Hong Kong as soon as Monday, less than a week ahead of the Bitcoin halving—a milestone expected to precede a surge in the price of BTC. According to a Friday report from Bloomberg, Chinese asset management firms Harvest Fund Management, Bosera Asset Management, and HashKey Capital are expected to get regulatory approval for ETFs for the top two digital assets. The news comes amid fading prospects for spot Ethereum ETFs in the U.S. Hong...
Apr 8
If the Bitcoin Halving Is Super Bullish, Why Does BTC Crash Shortly After?
The Bitcoin Halving is just days away! Count down with Decrypt. Bitcoin, the world's most prominent cryptocurrency, has garnered significant attention due to its extreme price volatility, presenting both substantial risks and potential rewards for investors. But two things are certain in the world of crypto: Halvings are bullish, and crypto winters follow halvings. To better understand these terms, in the Bitcoin ecosystem the "halving," is a pre-programmed occurrence that reduces the rate at wh...
Mar 25
Bitcoin Price Surges Back Above $70,000 With Halving 25 Days Away
With the Bitcoin halving less than 25 days away, the number-one cryptocurrency is nearing its all-time high again, breaking $70,000 again after a week-long downturn. According to CoinGecko, Bitcoin is trading at $70,561, up 9% in the last 24 hours and 5.5% over the last seven days. The last time Bitcoin was above $70,000 was March 14 before the digital asset began to slide and subsequently went on a wild ride consisting of ETF outflows, cryptocurrency exchange flash crashes, and inflation. Earli...
Mar 11
Why the Bitcoin Halving Is Sooner Than You Think
Sky-high Bitcoin ETF flows and several price rallies mean that the next Bitcoin halving is now projected to take place on April 15—not the meme-friendly 4/20 that it once was. That's bad news for meme fans who liked the idea of celebrating the halving and their affinity for weed on the same day. But it's also good news and a telling indication of trader sentiment. Just a month ago—on Valentine's Day, no less—Decrypt wrote about the very meme-friendly hypothetical situation that Bitcoin might rea...
Feb 29
Bitcoin Is Mooning: Here Are BTC’s Biggest Single-Day Price Gains in History
The price of Bitcoin continues to surge, with spot Bitcoin ETFs in the rearview mirror and the halving coming in April. Renewed euphoria has swirled as the price of Bitcoin skyrocketed to $64,000 on Wednesday. “Fourth Bitcoin bull market, and this all feels very different,” prominent Bitcoin podcast host Peter McCormack said on Twitter. Fourth #bitcoin bull market and this all feels very different. Lessons from the others:- 2013 spent all my #bitcoin and traded CFDs. Ended 2013 with 0 #bitcoin....
Feb 27
Scaramucci Touts Bitcoin Alongside Gold, Counters Jamie Dimon on Risk
JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he is concerned over current fiscal policies and skeptical about the market's optimism for a “soft landing.” And while he never mentioned Bitcoin—he promised he wouldn't—American financier Anthony Scaramucci said Dimon's risk-averse comments suggest that he needs to ”do more homework” on the digital asset. It started with an inflation-focused interview with CNBC at the annual Global High Yield & Leveraged Finance Conference in Miami, where Dimon said he was “kind o...
Feb 12
Grayscale: 2024 Bitcoin Halving 'Different' as ETFs, Ordinals Reshape Market Structure
Digital asset manager Grayscale predicts that the 2024 Bitcoin halving will play out differently than the past three, in a new report that highlights the market impact of U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs. In a report titled "2024 Halving: This Time It’s Actually Different," released Friday, Grayscale analysts point to Bitcoin ETFs providing a "new, steady demand source" that could counterbalance sell pressure from mining issuance. While the report notes that Bitcoin's price has historically gone up after...
Mar 30
BNY Mellon Weighs Controversial Bitcoin Valuation Model
BNY Mellon has taken on the difficult task of evaluating different methods of valuing Bitcoin in a March investment report, And in doing so, it's spotlighted a controversial model that—if correct—would see Bitcoin’s price hit $100,000 to $288,000 this year. BNY Mellon’s thoughts on the matter are important because it’s the largest custodian bank in the world, with over $25 trillion in assets. Its custodial role is soon to be expanding to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, as a Wall Street Journ...
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